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Academic and author of The Return of Martin Guerre, an account of peasant life in France that inspired a generation of historians

Martin Guerre was an otherwise unremarkable French peasant who lived in the mid 16th century and became famous to history as the center of a celebrated ...

Martin Guerre was an otherwise unremarkable French peasant of Basque descent who lived in the mid 16th century and became famous to history as the cente...

Natalie Zemon Davis, a social and cultural historian whose imaginative and deeply researched investigations of the lives of marginalized figures &#151

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She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

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Jean-Claude Carrière, 89, Dies; Prolific Writer of Screenplays and More He was a favorite of Luis Buñuel and other top filmmakers. He also had a fruitful collaboration with the stage director Peter Brook. Jean-Claude Carrière in 1999. He had more than 150 film and television writing credits and also wrote books and plays.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Feb. 11, 2021 Jean-Claude Carrière, an author, playwright and screenwriter who collaborated with the director Luis Buñu...